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2 Corinthians 3:6

And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:6 BSB

2 Corinthians 3:6 has 42 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 41 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 6:63 (34 votes) and Romans 7:6 (32 votes). 43 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Deuteronomy 27 to 1 John 1.

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Which verses does 2 Corinthians 3:6 point to?

The 20 strongest of 42, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 6:6334 votes

    The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

  2. Romans 7:632 votes

    But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

  3. Jeremiah 31:3127 votes

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

  4. Romans 8:227 votes

    For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

  5. Hebrews 8:6–1020 votes

    Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises. For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. …

  6. 1 Corinthians 15:4516 votes

    So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

  7. 2 Corinthians 3:1416 votes

    But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

  8. Hebrews 12:2415 votes

    to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

  9. Hebrews 7:2214 votes

    Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

  10. Romans 3:2012 votes

    Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

  11. Hebrews 13:2011 votes
  12. Luke 22:2010 votes
  13. Matthew 13:529 votes
  14. Romans 2:27–299 votes
  15. 1 Corinthians 11:259 votes
  16. Galatians 3:10–129 votes
  17. 1 Peter 3:189 votes
  18. Deuteronomy 27:268 votes
  19. Romans 7:9–117 votes
  20. 2 Corinthians 5:18–207 votes

Which verses point to 2 Corinthians 3:6?

The 10 strongest of 43.